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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Brianna Lawton, Morgan State University; Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University

issuebeing confused about knowing if they participated in research –clearing up the blur about whatis defined as research.Building the 360 Student: Socially, Critically, and ProfessionallyUndergraduate research not only enhances students’ hard skills but soft skills as well.Knowing the facts and information in your head is totally different when having tocommunicate those results to a group of professionals or your peers –it takes practice.Being able to connect with people on a social level, while conducting oneself in a professionalmanner and thinking critically is an art that can be mastered.At the start of the first author’s undergraduate career, she was shy with a small voice neverseeking attention. After being a part of teams due to her

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Benito Mendoza, New York City College of Technology; Pamela Ann Brown, New York City College of Technology, CUNY

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sets play a major role in determining success [23]. We believe that theCUREs model we implemented has helped the students to obtain the workforce skills expected tohave, from the course learning outcomes, and perhaps some other soft skills. This pedagogicalmodel also helps other aspects of general education such as a commitment to quality, timeliness,and continuous improvement. Moreover, in this particular implementation, since we are targetinga professional certification, students get an understanding and the ability to engage in self-directed continuing professional development. These outcomes, represent some programoutcomes that accreditation organizations for engineering, such as ABET, require.We believe that the course model presented

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Vazgen Shekoyan; sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College; Raul Armendariz, Queensborough Community College; George Tremberger Jr, CUNY-Queensborough Community College; Tak Cheung, CUNY Queensborough Community College

yearthere were about 10% engineering physics students persuaded (or saved) from transferring out ofpre- engineering, and we have attributed the building of confidence in fluid intelligence as aretention reason. A future study on whether improving writing would help fluid intelligencebuilding is an interesting project, consistent with a Forbes article saying that “Contrary to myth,science is not a rigid and objective realm where "soft skills" play no role, but an intenselycollaborative process where teamwork and communication are absolutely essential” 29.V. ConclusionsWe have reported our spatial reasoning strategy for fluid intelligence improvement.An assessment rubric was put forward for quantitative analysis with statistics to measure thegrowth